⚠️ Special Weather Statement – Cedar; Clinton; Muscatine; Scott – Friday, August 7, 2026

Special Weather Statement issued August 7 at 6:30PM CDT by NWS Quad Cities IA IL

Details

At 629 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7
miles east of Bennett, or 9 miles northeast of Durant, moving
southeast at 45 mph.

HAZARD…Wind gusts up to 50 mph.

SOURCE…Radar indicated.

IMPACT…Strong winds could break small tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.

Locations impacted include…
Davenport, The Mississippi Valley Fair, Durant, Eldridge, Wilton,
Walcott, Long Grove, Wheatland, Grand Mound, Calamus, Bennett,
Donahue, Dixon, Stockton, Maysville, New Liberty, Camp Liberty,
Bennett Park, Moscow, Sunbury, and Davenport Municipal Airport.

This includes the following highways…
Interstate 80 in Iowa between mile markers 267 and 295.
Interstate 280 between mile markers 1 and 2.

Instructions

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 1000 PM CDT for
east central Iowa.

This alert was automatically posted by SkyGuard, MWSC’s severe weather alerting system. Source: National Weather Service.